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Legislative Action Alert: Stop the Medicare Cut
Time is running out. Unless Congress acts now, physicians face another Medicare payment cut – 3.37% starting Jan. 1 – on top of the cuts in previous years. Urge your U.S. representative to cosponsor the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, House Resolution 2474, to fix the broken Medicare payment system and ensure physicians receive inflationary updates like hospitals and other Medicare providers do. It takes just a couple of clicks to send a ready-made message. Act now. More resources: Medicare Advocacy Toolkit / Physician office materials with QR code for patients to send a message to Congress
TMB to Start One-Time Fingerprinting Requirements for License Renewals
Starting in February, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will require physicians who haven’t submitted fingerprints since Jan. 15, 2018 to do so during their next renewal process. The requirement stems in part from a new state law. Read more
Feds Propose Information-Blocking ‘Disincentives’
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would establish what it is calling “disincentives” that could amount to serious penalties for physicians and health care professionals found to have committed information blocking. Continue reading
Gene-editing Therapy That Could Cure Sickle Cell Disease Is Close to FDA Approval
A breakthrough treatment for sickle cell patients could soon become the first gene-editing treatment to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This treatment takes a patient’s stem cells and edits them to produce more fetal hemoglobin, an abundance of which has been observed to cause red blood cells to not “sickle.” Continue reading
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